Combination table and quilting-frame



(No Model.)

J. HOFMANN, Jr. COMBINATION TABLE AND QUILTING FRAME.

Patented Dec. 16, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

.lOl-IN I-IOFMANN, JR., OF ASHERVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE STEARLEY, OF CLAY COUNTY, INDIANA.

COMBINATION TABLE AND QUlLTlNG-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,079, dated December 16, 1890.

Application filed April 8, 1889. Serial No. 306,470. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ard. Upon the cross-bars are rigidly mounted Be it known that I, JOHN I'IOFMANN, J r., a the opposite halves or sections 14e of the tablecitizen of the United States, residing at Ashtop, which halves or sections when abutting erville, in the county of Clay and State of Inconstitute the table-top, which is preferably 5 5 5 diana, have invented a new and useful Comcircular. l

bination Table and Quilting-Frame, of which By disengaging the spring-catches from the the following is a specilication. notches ll the table-top as a whole may be This invention relates to a combined table, tilted or inclined at any angle to serve as a desk, and quilting-frame; and among the obwritiugdesk, easel, &c or the same may re- 6o zo jects in View are to provide an exceedingly main horizontal and serve the purpose of an cheap and simple table adapted to be adj usted ordinary table. In any of its positions the at various inclinations to form a desk or to sections are maintained in proper relative pobe converted into a quilting-frame, all with sition by means of the usual tenons 14X, with ease and facility. which the edge of one of the sections is pro- 65 XVith the above objects in view the invenvided, entering corresponding openings in the tion consists in certain features of construcedge of the opposite section. tion, hereinafter specified, and particularly To convert the table into a quilting-frame, pointed out in the claim. the opposite halves are simply moved apart,

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a peras shown in Fig. 3, and t-he said sections tem- 7o 2o spective of a combined table and quiltingporarily connected by opposite side bars 15, frame constructed in accordance with my inpreferably cylindrical in cross-section, said vention, the same being shown as adapted to bars being provided at their opposite ends be used as atable. Fig. 2 is a transverse verwith screws 16, journaled in the opposite opentical section. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the ings of the two cross-bars and adapted to be 75 2 5 combination article, the same being adapted rotated, so as to take up the quilt as comto serve as a quilting-frame, the table-sections pleted. Upon each of the screws is mounted being dotted in this case in order to better a binding knob or handle 17, adapted to be illustrate the construction of parts. loosened to permit of a rotation of the bars,

Like numerals indicate like parts in all the and again tightened, so as to clamp the cross- 8o 3o figures of the drawings. bars between their inner ends and the outer The table is formed by the combining of endsof the side bars, and thus prevent furtwo opposite and similar sections l and 2, and ther rotation of the side bars. The quiltingis constructed as follows: frame thus formed has a table-section at each 3representsthesupporting-standards, there end, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, and 85 35 being one for each section, and at the lower these sections are serviceable for the recepends thereof are secured in this instance four tion of stock or tools used in the operation of divergingfeet Zi,formingasuitalolebase. One quilting. After the quilting has been comof the standards is provided at one side with pleted for the present, the bars may be Witha pivoted hook 5, the free end of which is drawn with the work thereon and set aside 9o 4o adapted to engage a stud G, projecting from and the table-sections returned to their p0- the corresponding face of the adjacent or sition.

companion standard. To the upper ends of By tilting the top to a substantially vertical each of the standards is pivoted, as at 7 a positionthe table consumes but very little cross-bar 8, which bars have eyes or openings room, and may be set aside out of the Way. 95 4 5 9, formed therein near their opposite ends, for Having described my invention, what I a purpose hereinafter explained. Depending claim is from each of the cross-bars 8 is a semicircu- In a combined table and quilting-frame, the

lar plate l0, provided at intervals with notches combination, with two independent vertical 1],any one of which is adapted to be engaged standards having supporting-legs and means roo 5o by a spring-catch l2, passing through in an for detachably locking them together, of a opening 13 near the upper end of the standtransverse cross-bar connected at its center to the upper end of each standard and lmvreduced ends adapted lo enter said openings ing` openings near its ends at right angles to When the sections are separated, all as and the length of said standard, EL section rigidly for the purpose horeinbefoie set forth.

Secured upon each cross-bar parallel with the JOHN IIOFMANN, JR. 5 plane of said openings, the two sections foimll'itnesses:

ing a table-top when the standards are locked GEORGE lIoFMANN,

together, and longitudinal side bars having' HENRY KNUDSEN. 

